New production facility for Hotcan

A company that produces self-heating cans for the consumer, trade, defence and emergency response markets has opened a new state-of-the-art production facility in the UK.

Heat Food and Drink recently opened the facility at Lancaster Park, Needwood, near Burton on Trent in Staffordshire. The company plans to create more than 50 jobs over the next year.

The company produces a unique self-heating food product called Hotcan. The recently opened production facility can produce up to 750,000 cans per month and the company has recently fulfilled substantial orders to the Metropolitan Police and a Danish wind power company.

Hotcan comes in a range of seven flavours including; spicy beef pasta, beans with meatballs, chicken curry with rice and four-cheese ravioli with a chunky tomato sauce.

Each Hotcan contains over 400g of nutritious food and the self-contained heating mechanism is activated by simply piercing the rim of the can with the provided key. This action sets up a completely safe exothermic reaction that heats the food inside the can to a perfect eating temperature in 10-12 minutes. The food inside then stays hot for up to 45 minutes, so you can eat it straight away or leave it while you do something else.

Mark Taylor, managing director of Heat Food and Drink, said: “Hotcans have been produced for over 30 years and in 2010 we took over the product and set up a brand new manufacturing facility.

As well as a new factory and offices we’ve completely re-vamped the product, re-branding it with a new vibrant image, upgrading the heating mechanism, developing a new range of high quality food and we’ve even reduced prices to make the product more cost-effective for our customers.

“I have no doubt that Hotcan has the scope to be one of the biggest brands in the world and we’re now looking for enthusiastic and talented people to join our team and help us grow the business into the next Red Bull!”

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